Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1984 the WCFBA Plenary Assembly asked for a Synod entirely on the biblical apostolate in the Church . |
2 | Sir Percival Sharp fought for the AEC mainly on the first issue — but could find no support — so that the second , the potential extension of the power of central government , went largely unchallenged . |
3 | Norma , 55 , was unable to lie down for three months while her neck healed after a fall downstairs at a friend 's house . |
4 | The positive intervention by the military occurred after a meeting earlier in the month with United States Defence Department officials who warned the military against attempting to seek authoritarian solutions . |
5 | Jane moved into a £200,000 home in Bondi last month . |
6 | ‘ We , I , well , Leon cast into the Broad just off the reed bed over the east side , Sunday afternoon . |
7 | When she had lifted it , she prostrated herself on the ground and peered into the blackness below with the help of the well-provided villa 's torch . |
8 | Coach driver Peter Wright lost both his legs when his bus crashed into a bridge upright on the M40 at Tetsworth last November . |
9 | An aeroplane carrying many of Zambia 's national soccer team to a World Cup qualifying match in Senegal crashed into the Atlantic soon after take-off from Libreville , in Gabon . |
10 | And , nimble as a monkey , he bounded up the stairs ahead of Cranston and Athelstan . |
11 | A Very light flickered into the sky away to the south : other raiders were in action . |
12 | BUDAPEST — The Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party , extinguished at the weekend by its congress , rose from the ashes yesterday in Budapest 's communist heartland , the industrial district of Csepel , Imre Karacs writes . |
13 | It crashed in a fireball early on Sunday evening , as many people settled down to watch television . |
14 | In addition to these the Court of Appeal has powers to order the retrial of a case tried before a judge alone in the following cases : |
15 | It contributed to the newspaper both in terms of content and also in terms of much-needed revenue and so helped newspapers in their struggles to survive . |
16 | Prentice said , as the battered Cortina 11 drew to a stop just past them . |
17 | But German exchange students Bjorn Dittrich and Nina Roth rose to the occasion admirably on their recent placement at Wimpey Homes Witham . |
18 | Baker travelled from the former Soviet Union on Dec. 19 to Brussels , where he reported to the meeting there of North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Defence Ministers . |
19 | Some Scots fled to the abbey there after Flodden . ’ |
20 | ‘ They 're retreating , sir ! ’ the Sergeant shouted to an officer far behind him , then , not waiting for any orders , spurred his horse forward . |
21 | Later we dined at a restaurant quite near the flat . ’ |
22 | We lined up in the final and I came off the bend well in the lead . |
23 | I drove through the city instead of round the loop . |
24 | Their decision came during a meeting late on Tuesday when the couple realised the tour had got off to a bad start . |
25 | Racal Electronics Plc and Honeywell Inc have unveiled a new Satcom multi-channel , in-flight telephone system that will enable several calls to be placed and received aboard an airliner simultaneously at their Racal-Honeywell venture . |
26 | I said I 'd be in any time after six that evening and he came for the key precisely on the hour . ’ |
27 | The established , and now publicized , fact that women 's sexual capacity increases with age , at least until the late twenties , and stays at this peak for decades , while men 's is already declining , came as a shock both to men , who suddenly discovered they were the unlucky sex , and to women who had not realized what they had been missing . |
28 | For what seemed like an eternity both of them were suspended in mid-air , filthy fumes pouring into the carriage from inside the tunnel . |
29 | Once again The Smiths waltzed into a situation far in advance of their short-lived career . |
30 | Bower-bird sidled along the branch away from Cassowary . |